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01 Chain reaction
While little gets eroded on smart bikes such as the Wattbike or Tacx Bike, it’s a different story with the bike rigged up to your turbo. Even if it’s kept indoors all winter, it doesn’t mean it’s maintenance-free. “I recently took my turbo bike into a workshop and in the words of the mechanic, my chain was ‘drier than a camel’s scrotum’,” says Kate Allan, winner of the RTTC National 50-mile and 10-mile time trials in 2022. “You still need to oil your chain or it’s going to get very dry. You can get a sweat capture that sits over the top tube and stops chain erosion, too.”
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02 Weapons of distraction
● For Andrea Parish, time triallist and current Chair of CTT, the national governing body for time trialling in Britain, a turbo session requires all manner of distraction to take her mind off the fact she’s feverishly pedalling nowhere in a humid
